Your Next is Taking Shape

You don’t have to rush toward it.

Have you ever felt something shifting inside you before you could put words to it?


A quiet sense that you’re approaching a new chapter—even if nothing obvious has changed on the outside?


That’s your next beginning to take shape.


Sometimes your next starts with the smallest inner signal:
a desire for a new behaviour, a fresh perspective, or a different way of moving through your day.


You may not even be ready to act on it yet—but the noticing itself is the spark.

Wave crashing against rocks, the splash of which caught the sunlight so as to look like a

I was reminded of this recently while rereading Gift from the Sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh writes about the changing tides of our inner world—how each season pulls something new to the surface, whether we feel ready or not.


That’s the thing about your next: once the seed of change is planted, it continues to grow.


Slowly at first, almost imperceptibly… but it grows.


And eventually, you’ll face choices—new choices—the kind that ask you to step toward what’s calling you instead of what’s familiar.


You don’t have to rush toward it.
But you can’t stop it either.
Your next will find its way to you.

Northern beach with the tide partially in

Let's keep going!

Shelley Steele, MEd, ICF Certified Coach (ACC)

Executive & Life Coach | Curriculum Development Specialist
Founder, 
Steele Academy

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